Charles Preston

Jan 8, 2025 | injusticewatch.org | Charles Preston

Are you a Chicago renter, homeowner, community advocate — or just someone who’s curious about Chicago’s housing landscape? Join Injustice Watch senior reporters Maya Dukmasova and Alejandra Cancino for a free, hands-on workshop to help Chicago residents learn how to research building code violations and find out who owns properties in the city.

Dec 3, 2024 | britannica.com | Charles Preston

Also called: Datta Top Questions Dattatreya is an ascetic Hindu deity considered to be the paragon of yogic practice, often depicted as the incarnation of the Trimurti—Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva. He melds elements of Tantra with orthodox Hinduism.

Nov 11, 2024 | britannica.com | Charles Preston

Music and albums “Christmas Eve/Sarajevo 12/24,” Trans-Siberian Orchestra’s major hit, was, as of 2016, in third place among most downloaded Christmas songs, per Billboard magazine, with more than 1.3 million downloads. After appearing first on Savatage’s Dead Winter Dead album it was featured on Trans-Siberian Orchestra’s Christmas Eve and Other Stories (1996), which became one of the top 10 Christmas albums through the next 25 years.

Oct 24, 2024 | britannica.com | Fred Frommer |Charles Preston

Inauguration and progression The first Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, held November 27, 1924, was called “Macy’s Christmas Parade” and aimed at ginning up demand for Christmas shopping. Macy’s held the parade to celebrate the opening of what it called the “World’s Largest Store”—more than 1,000,000 square feet (93,000 square meters) of retail space that occupied a full city block in Midtown Manhattan.

Oct 21, 2024 | britannica.com | Charles Preston

Rituals and temples Images of the navagrahas as anthropomorphic divine figures have been carved in Hindu temples since the 5th century ce. Initially just seven were included, until Rahu and later Ketu were added by the 7th century ce. The set was often carved on lintels. In many Hindu temples up through the present there is a square altar topped with anthropomorphic murtis (statues) of the navagraha deities.